We will have massive numbers of us turning out to the polls. But to safeguard voting and make democracy work, there’s more we’re called on to do this year. We need to protect the right to vote in the first place and organize for the affordable country working people deserve.
With partners across the country, we’re building both electoral power and organized power through the solidarity schools and other events happening across the country this Labor Day weekend.
Earlier this year, the more than 500 organizations that make up May Day Strong put together over 5,000 protests, strikes, walkouts and other actions across the country. Now, we’re building the bigger and more skilled movement we need to confront all the billionaire attacks and build the unity we need this fall and beyond.
Solidarity schools are about getting more people involved and giving them the skills to organize others, take nonviolent collective action, and respond together when our communities come under attack.
The goal isn’t just a bigger movement. It’s a more skilled one.
We don’t know what the coming months will bring, including whether the Trump administration will respect the results of the midterm elections. But we know we have to be more ready than we are right now. None of the rights generations before us fought for can be taken for granted and all of them need our active defense.
The power we have when we step into the voting booth by ourselves is made possible by what we do together before we get there and after we leave.
